Brendan Gillett | As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proposes a 70% Tax On the Rich, My Boyfriend and I Eat Chicken and Noodles | Poets Resist

Poets Resist
Edited by Sarah Ghoshal
January 18, 2019

Brendan Gillett

As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Proposes a 70% Tax On the Rich,
My Boyfriend and I
Eat Chicken and Noodles

leftovers from yesterday's meal made for a friend who couldn't join me sliced and reworked into something new he asks for a smaller portion when he finishes I tell him he can have some of mine I'll have some when you're finished but I will never finish my hunger grows I could eat everything so I am trying to share because in moments of surplus we can shovel it in or spread it around there is no reason for one to be stuffed while one leaves the table wanting more what I'm saying is a dog will eat food until it falls over bloated and sick a society can be a family dinner we just need to push the plates to the middle and say here, take some I have more than I need and I can see that you are still hungry